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Cinema: “Megalopolis”, the new big-budget film from Francis Ford Coppola
Cinema: “Megalopolis”, the new big-budget film from Francis Ford Coppola
(FRANCEINFO)
The latest film by American director Francis Ford Coppola, “Megalopolis”, is released in theaters on Wednesday, September 25. On the set of the 11 p.m. news program, journalist Laurence Boulet looks back on this “astronomical project”, which cost more than 100 million dollars.
Megalopolisthe new film by Francis Ford Coppola, is released in theaters Wednesday, September 25. “It’s a colossal project”explains journalist Laurence Boulet, to whom the 85-year-old American director “thought for a very long time”. “Two men fight in a city called New Rome, a reference to Antiquity. It’s a slightly alternative New York of the 21st century.”she says.
“Caesar, a genius architect, has great plans for the city. He has invented a revolutionary material.”continues Laurence Boulet. “Facing him is Cicero, the mayor of the city, who is totally opposed to Caesar’s ideas.”she explains. A Russian satellite will fall on the city and force everything to be rebuilt. “The film’s budget is huge, exceeding $100 million.”concludes the journalist.